FIVE yobs have been banned by the courts from a troubled estate and a sixth told to behave himself.

Brendon Wooff, pictured, who claimed in court he was a youth worker and said he tried to dissuade youngsters from a life of crime, has been hit with an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO).

Police yesterday also won injunctions against five other men because of the trouble in Rainbow Park in Winnersh.

Wooff - the self-styled "gangster of Winnersh" - has been banned from the street under the ASBO while four of the others have also been expelled from the area under the injunctions.

The sixth man has been told not to abuse or threaten anyone in Rainbow Park.

It follows an outbreak of violence and

trouble on the Winnersh estate last month.

Wooff, 21, was to receive an injunction as well but the ASBO - a two-year ban which will start when he is released from prison where he's currently serving an 18-month sentence - supercedes it.

The other men had not been named by police last night but the Evening Post understands they are two 19-year-olds, two 18-year-olds and a 35-year-old.

Wooff was jailed for 18 months last week after he and Marty Eighteen, of Circuit Lane in Southcote, attacked a 16-year-old for revenge because they believed he had burgled the latter's girlfriend's home.

It happened in Wokingham but Judge Susan Matthews, QC, granted the two-year ASBO because of the trouble Wooff had caused in Rainbow Park.

She said: "In light of the matters for which there is a civil injunction in place, [the ASBO] should be granted.

"I'm not saying there isn't some good in him but he has got to live a life that demonstrates he can abide by the rules.

"He has described himself as ‘the gangster of Winnersh' and it's clear he should be restricted going into that area because of his past conduct."

Adam Crook, defending, said Wooff, of Bayley Court in Winnersh, had concerns about the Rainbow Park restriction because it "relates to the youth work he does".

He said: "He has been involved with youths doing youth worker work, doing supporting activities, trying to dissuade them from getting in the trouble he has got into, explaining why they should follow his lead," he said. "He has been a leader."

A Wokingham District Council spokeswoman denied Wooff was an employee and that he was a voluntary youth worker but said he was part of a group of young people the council worked with. She said that there may have been a supporting statement submitted by one of its youth workers saying how the defendant had been supportive to that youth worker in their work with young people.

Eighteen, 23, did not attend for sentencing and a warrant was issued for him.